Connectivity patterns in biological brains exhibit many repeating motifs. This repetition mirrors inherent geometric regularities in the physical world. For example, stimuli that ...
This paper investigates helper threads that improve performance by prefetching data on behalf of an application’s main thread. The focus is data prefetch helper threads that lac...
Overlapping communication with computation is an important optimization on current cluster architectures; its importance is likely to increase as the doubling of processing power ...
Wei-Yu Chen, Dan Bonachea, Costin Iancu, Katherine...
In this paper, we introduce the “Plug” sensor network, a ubiquitous networked sensing platform ideally suited to broad deployment in environments where people work and live. T...
Joshua Lifton, Mark Feldmeier, Yasuhiro Ono, Camer...
Reflective middleware provides an effective way to support adaptation in distributed systems. However, as distributed systems become increasingly complex, certain drawbacks of the...
Bholanathsingh Surajbali, Geoff Coulson, Phil Gree...